IDM Press Flagship Book
Measuring Hidden Dimensions: The Art and Science of Fully Engaging Adults
IDM Press, January 2006, by Otto Laske Ph.D.
Measuring Hidden Dimensions will quickly become your most valuable resource in practicing 'outside the box' of conventional coach training and degree programs.
In nine "theory" chapters plus exercises, case studies, and an introduction to developmental team work and human resources management, the book gives the reader hands-on knowledge of how to integrate adult-developmental knowledge into everyday practice.
You will be taken seriously as a thinker standing on your own feet, with enhanced potential for mental growth that you can transfer to your clients. Recipes will become a thing of the past, since your own hypothesis testing and 'intuition' will be powerfully strengthened by reading the book and doing the exercises.
Stand above the crowd: BE DARING, AND MAKE A LEAP INTO AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE!
Measuring Hidden Dimensions: The Art and Science of Fully Engaging Adults is available in both soft cover bound format ($59.95) and e-book format ($46.95).
Measuring Hidden Dimensions volume 1 is the first of three volumes on developmentally based process consultation including coaching. The book teaches developmental assessment, developmental listening, developmental interviewing, and the evaluation of semi-structured interviews administered for the purpose of providing powerful feedback to clients and designing interventions.
By showing the developmental novice how to begin thinking developmentally, Measuring Hidden Dimensions will quickly become your most valuable resource in practicing 'outside the box' of conventional coach training and degree programs. In nine chapters and an appendix comprising exercises, case studies, and an introduction to developmental team work and human resources management, the book gives the reader hands-on knowledge of how to integrate adult-developmental knowledge into everyday practice.
The volumes reflect the structure of Laske’s Program One at the Interdevelopmental Institute. As holds for the IDM certification program, the book as a whole unfolds three distinct perspectives on clients, brought together and synthesized in the third volume, namely:
- Social-emotional assessment (volume 1)
- Cognitive assessment (volume 2, 2008)
- Behavioral assessment and IDM case studies (volume 3, 2009).
All volumes are designed as workbooks for students who are in the process of acquiring the skills of developmental thinking.
Table of Contents
Preface: Why this book and why now?
Introduction to Process Consultation
Chapter 1: You Already Know What Adult Development Is!
Chapter 2: What is Your Hypothesis as You Listen?
Chapter 3: Where is Your Client’s Center of Gravity?
Chapter 4: From Active to Hypothesis Based Listening
Chapter 5: How Spread Out between Risk and Potential is Your Client?: Making Finer Distinctions between Stages
Chapter 6: How to Understand Developmental Conflict
Chapter 7: The Structure of Powerful Conversations: How to Listen between the Lines
Chapter 8: How to Test Your Developmental Knowledge
Chapter 9: What it All Means for Coaching: The Developmental Foundations Spelled Out for Practice.
Appendix: A: Exercises with Answers, B: Coaching and Mentoring Case Studies, C: Teams, D: Capability Management.
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index
The book’s Appendix is devoted to exercises and applications of the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). Equal attention is given to the art of listening and the science of scoring developmental interviews.
A short description of each chapter of volume 1 and of its Appendices
The first three chapters introduce to adult-developmental stage theory based on R. Kegan’s work, with equal attention paid to listening and text analysis.
Chapter 4 is an analysis of ‘active listening’ and is the basis of chapter 7, on developmental interviewing. In chapters 5 and 6, the framework of four ‘main’ stages is further differentiated through an introduction of ‘intermediate’ stages, thereby enabling the consultant to refine developmental diagnoses within a framework of 16 different stages.
The book’s teachings up to chapter 7 are put to the test in chapter 8 which presents a complete analysis of a three-page interview fragment, in order to exemplify the scoring of interviews in terms of developmental stage structure. Chapter 9, finally, is a theory of coaching and its limits, based on the distinction between different coaching levels.
The Appendix completes the topic of social-emotionally based process consultation. Apart of the exercises (A) — some with, some without answers — section B presents three case studies of coaching clients, including recommended coaching strategy. Section C introduces a developmental typology of teams meant to predict the team’s dynamic. Finally, Section D of the Appendix provides an elementary introduction to the use of Capability Metrics for use in HR and OD human resources management.
In its entirety, Laske’s book exemplifies his teaching, that of a developmentally based theory of process consultation equally focused on life and work, but emphasizing the world of work.
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